broken pipe when working on open files (?), MacOS X, 3.0.2/3.0.3pre2

[Axel Rose]

Hello all,

I have trouble to use rsync (tested with 3.0.2 and 3.0.3pre2) on MacOS X
10.3.
Rsync always seems to stop when working on open files (?). Source is my
laptop
hard disk, destination a USB attached external drive.

If I stop Firefox for instance all runs smoothly.

This is how I built rsync:

  #!/bin/bash

  # VERSION=3.0.2
  VERSION=3.0.3pre2
  DIR="rsync-$VERSION"
  PATCH="rsync-patches-$VERSION"

  sudo rm -rf $DIR
  tar xvzf $DIR.tar.gz
  tar xvzf $PATCH.tar.gz
  cd $DIR

  patch -p1 < patches/fileflags.diff
  patch -p1 < patches/crtimes.diff
  ./prepare_source
  patch -p1 < patches/backup-dir-dels.diff
  ./configure
  make
  sudo make test

  cd ..


This is how I run rsync:

  sudo /Users/ar/work/rsync/rsync-3.0.3pre2/rsync  \
    -vvv --stats --progress -aHAX --fileflags --force-change --crtimes \
    --exclude .Trash \
    /Users/ar /Volumes/Pro-Backup/Users/ar

and the error log ends like this:
---
send_files mapped /Users/ar/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/p3xm9ow4.default/secmod.db of size 16384
calling match_sums /Users/ar/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/p3xm9ow4.default/secmod.db
ar/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/p3xm9ow4.default/secmod.db
rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32)
...
recv_generator(ar/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/p3xm9ow4.default/extensions/
firefox-extension at shareaholic.com/chrome/content,14004)
recv_generator(ar/Library/Application
Support/Firefox/Profiles/p3xm9ow4.default/extensions/
firefox-extension at shareaholic.com/chrome/locale,14005)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=635): about to call exit(12)


I observed a similar "broken pipe" message when I copied something within
the source volume
using the Finder.

Is this just my peculiar compilation or usage of rsync?


Thanks for your help,
Axel.
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